Glendale Heights Dooms Project

A developer`s request for a variation to erect two six-flat buildings in eastern Glendale Heights is headed for rejection by the Village Board.

In a 6-0 advisory vote Thursday night, the board said that at its July 5 meeting it would deny the variation for two lots north of Marilyn Avenue on Floyd Brown Lane.

Neighbors protested that the six-flats would be too dense for the area, even though there are such buildings there now. They said six-flats would worsen serious traffic and aesthetic problems there.

The lots, among six that Harold A. Reskin, the developer of Glendale Heights, donated to charitable organizations, are zoned for no more than four- flat buildings under changes to the village code made in recent years.

This month a lawyer and a real estate agent acting for the purchasers of two of the lots said they had been misled by village staff members into thinking six-flats could be built and had spent more than $117,000 in planning for such a project.

But this week after Donna Becerra, village director of community development, reported to the board on zoning changes on the lots and contacts with the owners and developer, the attorney and agent apologized for any implication that the village staff had misled them or failed to give them information.

Though the purchasers, Ambrosio and Gloria Rivera, bought the lots about three months ago with the intent to build six-flats, buildings that large have been banned on lots of that size since 1983, Becerra reported.

Reskin donated the lots to the Jewish United Fund of Greater Chicago, but he has been acting as an agent for them.

Becerra said in her report: `` . . . No staff member ever provided incorrect zoning information to any owner, seller, purchaser or builder or made any representations that are not consistent with current zoning ordinance.``